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To His Greatness, the Just King of Léon, et. al:

We sense concern in His Majesty's correspondence. Therefore We, the King of England, wish to declare that Our friendship is sincere, and that His Highness the King of Léon should not think ill of Our intentions. As for the historical boundaries of Portugal they were forged in the ancient past, before the infidels, and known by its people by a differrent name.* Also, You ask why We would have Our son or brother put on the portuguese throne. Our dear friend, will not You also pursue the glory of conquest and crusade? Will not You seek the Prestige and Piety gained from Holy War? The glory of Our blood are Our own, and every inch of land gained and ruled by Our dynasty will increase the reverence with which Our name is whispered in times to come. God favours the righteous, and no cause is more rightous than driving off the infidel and replace their rule with that of Our kin.

Yet, We are not blind in Our ambition. If We would free Portugal, We would not demand the throne for Our kin if it displeases its people, or His Highness. And if the sight of English banners on Iberian soil would anger His Majesty, rest assured, You would not have to witness such a thing.


*OOC: I'm too lazy to think up a better reason for Portugal to consist of the provinces it does in CK(the provinces needed to create the title).
 
To His Most Royal and Just Majesty, the King of England,

We hope You did not take Our words to harsh. There have been rumblings that a coup is imminent, having as its aim the overthrow of my sons current Regency Council, with my person included. Therefore, We scrutinize every piece of incoming diplomacy, including those originating from Your Majesties' court. (OOC: my lame attempt at RP'ing it)

To go back on the topic of Portugal, We must place great doubt into those legends of an ancient Kingdom of Portugal. Nevertheless, We are as anxious to expel the infidels from those lands. Unfortunately, we are in no power right now (OOC: read: lack of prestige) to fight the Duke of Braganza or the Muslims. If England wishes, she can send her troops against Braganza and the Muslims, but she should not expect any aid from us right now. Lastly, if the English do manage to establish a Kingdom of Portugal, We cannot absolutely guarantee the future sovereignty of such a realm.

Violante Fernandez, the Mother and Regent for HM Sancho King of Leon, Castile and Aragon
 
We must place great doubt into those legends of an ancient Kingdom of Portugal.
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*cough cough* [size="-2"]Lusitania[/size] *cough cough*
 
To His Royal Majesty, the Courageous King of Léon, et. al:

We are honoured that His Highness grants Us His blessing for a Crusade against the infidels of Andalusia. God bless such pious acts! Regarding matters of a future Kingdom of Portugal, we leave them to be discussed at a time when His Majesty has firmly established Himself as the undisputed ruler of his realm. However, know this: We do not wish to create a state of affairs which would fuel war between Good Christians. Our ambitions are peace and friendship.
 
The duke of Pereyaslav is sorry about the polish people, their king talks about war and hate, what a great leader and christian, he goes agains all the lord's teachings, we hope the polish overthrown that devil from his leadership.
We are not worried about any polish attack, we will handle it we can assure, like the polish leader said, may the armies of heaven and hell clash in russia, the polish heatful people against the peaceloving russians.
 
My good Kniaz of Pereyaslavl, if you would like to join in the combat and fight against me, then I encourage you to do so if that truly is your own will. However, my quarrel is not with Pereyaslavl, but with Kiev. I have no intention to attack Pereyaslavl unless provoked, but I shall not allow anything to stand between myself and the Golden Gates of Kiev. I have already acknowledged that God does not approve of what I do now, but it is necessary. God does not choose sides in war, only men do. My task is a bloody one, and I shall face God at the heavenly gates and ask forgiveness, but I must carry out this task to its end. We all have our cross to carry in this life; this war is and shall forever be mine.

But if you should say that the Kievans are peace-loving, then I would show you the letter that your brother (?) and my cousin, the Prince of Kiev, wrote, proclaiming to the world that he would annihilate the Polish race and "rape its women". If I am going against the Lord's teachings, then the Prince of Kiev is practically burning and spitting upon the Bible. It pains me to fight against my own kin, but I cannot and will not let such threats be carried out against the Polish people nor any civilization upon this Earth.

Once again, I do not wish to fight you, but I shall go to battle against you with a smile on my face and a warcry in my heart if I must. If you are truly convinced that your neighbor in Kiev will not turn on you the very second he can, then by all means, bring the war to Krakow and I will fight you fairly and nobly. I have enjoyed conversing with you, king to king, but soon we shall face each other as simply one warrior against another warrior. When that time comes, I wish you blessing that we might both survive the chaos of battle. The reckoning is upon us, the sun sets now upon a calm Europe, to rise tomorrow to a blood red dawn. May our peoples weather the storm.

With my blessing,

Boleslaw Piast, King of Poland
 
As I have said before you are a mad man and as such all I can do is fight you.
 
At last the Prince of Kiev lets fall the facade of peacefulness and innocence! Excellent my evil Prince, now we shall have battle upon the plains! Let the drums of war beat throughout the lands, let the earth tremble under our warriors' feet, let the people of the lands be spared, and let the Dniepr run red with blood! Polaniam supra Rusis est!
 
Pereyaslavl intentions are not to have a war with the Kingdom of Poland, if the King is to be thrusted and says he will not meddle with my country, then I have no intentions of joining war against you.
 
traitor! The Poles will not rest until all of Russia is crushed under the boot of Polish repression!
 
It is their free will, or do you wish to rein them in, and reduce their freedom?
 
Not attacking Poland doesn't mean we will let them rule over Russia. We will keep an eye over them and anyone who want's to rule over russians.
 
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The Prince of Kyiv hereby declares that we will make a unilateraly agreement where we shall NOT take any Polish territories owned by Pagans and that the border will not move an inch forward beyond what we control or previously controlled before realm duress hit me.

Also, should Poland seek to expand into Russian sphere of influence at the expense of the Russian people we WILL be forced to defend ourselves and ask all peace loving nations to aid us should Poland be the agressor in any war between us.

Currently the scum of Hungary are under the influence of an evil King bent on attacking Kyiv again and again, we were generous once before gladly forgoing claims on Hungarian territory in exchange for Russian territory to maintain the peace but now unless Hungary's rightful king can return to the throne we will be forced to take steps to prevent hungary from harming innocent russians.

Now onto more palatable matters that does not require warmongering, the Prince of Kyiv inorder to maintain the territorial soverignty of our lands has forced us to go into a massive debt any and all aids, donations, and loans which we would be glad to negotiate for to help speed up the process to get out of debt would be grand and greatly appreciated and you would have the good will of the Russian peoples for 4 generations, and will gladly find some non self destructive means of paying you back.

We consider this to be the Lines of Control on the Poland-Russia Front, not pretty but it will do.

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We consider that ANY attack into any of the specified counties that while not immediately under our control is nonetheless an indirect attck on the Rodina, and will defend them with just as much Zeal as defending the golden gates of Kyiv.
 
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You speak of respecting the crown of Poland, while you seek the land of Poland for yourself! Seek for yourself and you shall see that I speak sooth. The province of (will look up name, but two provs east of Krakow, two provs northwest of Kiev, on prov north of where that big stack of troops are with redish banners) falls under the crown of Poland, if you speak sooth, Kniaz of Kiev, how do you explain this?
 
Following the rising conflict in the east, the King of England cannot avoid noticing that within the seemingly peace-seeking words of the Veliky Kniaz, an awesome claim has been made to all the non-russian peoples of the Baltics. Indeed, would the Kniaz of Kiev not proclaim himself King of Lithuania if his coffers were filled?

For a conqueror of other peoples, there is no right to rule conquered land beyond that of the sword. Thus the King of Poland is well within his right to contest Kievan rule of Lithuania, on the field of battle if needed, his own polish sword pitched against the russian, to replace another rule with his own. The Veliky Kniaz of Kiev would be wise to consider negotiation and compromise if he truly cares for the lives of his russian subjects.
 
the lands we claimed were held by Pagans and we consider it our duty to convert them to christianity.

Also, the lands that we owned that appear to have been polish were ours for generations however, if there is any garantee that Poland would keep its word we would gladly trade polish lands inexchange for peace but only if there was a garantee that we would be not only suitably reimbursed but also left alone, the Lithunians are under our protection, we have no forced them under our rule and have allowed many Lithunian nobles the right to seceed and rule themselves but we nonetheless protect them so that they may enjoy their hard won freedom.

So I'll repeat, we will gladly exchange "Polish" territories that we own (that we did not take by force) in exchange for monetary reimbursement (any amount will do) and peace. But only if we can get a garantee that Poland would not break such a treaty and leave us Russian and Lithunian people's alone.
 
To His Highness the King of Norway.

We the King of England have noticed the norwegian vassalization of part of Scotland. His Majesty would wish to know what intentions and claims the King of Norway has for the land of the Scots.
 
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To His Highness the King of Norway.

We the King of England have noticed the norwegian vassalization of part of Scotland. His Majesty would wish to know what intentions and claims the King of Norway has for the land of the Scots.
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Olaf Haraldsson Yngling King of Norway recieves William De Normandie the Conquerer of the saxons in much respect. Even in his latter years his name strikes fear into his would be enemies.

Norway has witnessed this fear even in Scotland and as far as Ireland. Though more so has Norway witnessed these last few years the king of Scotland Malcom Dunkeld and his inability to rule his own country. I have seen muslims walk into his lands and do as they wish as scotland tore itself apart in a series of mini civil wars. His own nephew who is the Duchy of Atholl departed from his rulership and unstable leadership.

I offered my hand to help let him follow a just and wise ruler. One that he will never have to worry of civil wars or even muslims having their way with his land and people. The Norweigans have travelled and settled upon your Island for many centuries and even ruled many parts of it. So I as King of Norway see in my own eyes that we still have claim to scotland if we so wished it.

I do not seek completely or desire all of a scotland enough to press any wars or for selfish reasons. Only in the case where I deem scotland unable to rule itself anymore and fall back into anarchy.

If you wish to discuss more on my intentions I welcome you to send your diplomats once more. I have spoken to you honestly and straightforwardly.
 
To His Majesty, the honourable King of Norway.

We are pleased with the words spoken by the King of Norway, and We remain confident that peace will reign between the two of us as long as such wisdom prevails. No one can tell what pursuits coming Kings of England will attempt, but We remain confident that with such distinguished rulers as of Your own Dynasty, the Kings of Norway and the Kings of England may always solve their disputes, should they arise, through diplomacy rather than destructive and costly warfare. And with that said, We feel little need to bother His Higness more over this issue. May our diplomacy be resumed when need be.
 
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